One of America's most influential educators explains how a boyhood vision--of a learning place for people who could draw on everyday experience to work toward peace and justice

The Long Haul: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Myles Horton

Judith Kohl

HERBERT KOHL

Professionals & Academics

DOUBLEDAY

One of America's most influential educators explains the creation of a learning place for people who could draw on everyday experience to work toward peace and justice

Miles Horton

Anchor Books

Reading, How To is Herbert Kohl's answer to the phonics versus whole language debate and to other false dichotomies and unhelpful mandates that characterize much of our talk about reading instruction. Kohl boldly insists that "there is no reading problem. Most people who fail to learn how to read in our society are victims of a fiercely competitive system of training that requires failure." Kohl believes instead that "anyone who reads with a certain degree of competency can help others who read less well." With this simple yet radical thought, Kohl lets us know that things don't have to be as hard as we imagine. The materials for learning, and for helping others learn, are abundant, not scarce.

Reading, How To

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

A bantam Book

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the popular is political. Whether it s Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials teach children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Linda Christensen

Renée Watson

Ann Pelo

Bob Peterson

Grace Cornell Gonzales

Elizabeth Marshall

Özlem Sensoy

Rachel Cloues

Margot Pepper

Sudie Hofman

Social Sciences

Rethinking Schools

The prizewinning educator's brilliant meditation on the misleading way generations of children have been taught the story of Rosa Parks.One day Rosa was tired. She sat in the front. The bus driver told her to move. She did not. He called the police. Rosa was put in jail.—from an American elementary school textbookWhen National Book Award winner and bestselling author Herbert Kohl first published a reflection on how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott is distorted when taught to children, Vivian Paley wrote, "Kohl urges us to look beneath our smug certainties and come closer and closer to the truth."Now, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of that famous moment in the history of the civil rights movement, Kohl has expanded and updated his original discussion. Beginning with a new introduction by Marian Wright Edelman, She Would Not Be Moved also includes a contribution by Cynthia Brown on Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks.The book also includes a teacher's guide explaining how to evaluate textbooks written for young people, an extensive resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement, and a dozen black-and-white photographs.

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

New Press

The prizewinning educator’s brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having “the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms,” this expanded version of Kohl’s original groundbreaking discussion “deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative” (Chicago Tribune).
In addition to Marian Wright Edelman’s introduction, She Would Not Be Moved includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; a teachers’ resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; and an appendix explaining how to evaluate textbooks for young people about this critical period in U.S. history.

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks And the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Marian Wright Edelman

Community & Culture

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